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June 22, 2008 at 07:09 PM
w2ktechman

Avast AV — Yahoo false positive

by w2ktechman . Updated 17 years, 11 months ago

Just an FYI, so that nobody spends a couple of hours on this as I have.

After an Avast update earlier today, my system suddenly detected an XBox 360 and wanted to install it. However, there was none (so I went looking around for the problem).

Soon Afterwards I tried going to http://yahoo.com, and it was blocked. Avast was prompt to tell me that I was trying to download a virus, and it blocked it. It only (for me so far) blocks http://yahoo.com, however http://yahoo.com/%anything else% gets you to Yahoo… LOL

Avast is working on the issue and recognizes it as a false positive.
Oh Yeah, here is the info in the Avast popup
http://www.yahoo.com/\unp7876546
VBS:Malware-gen
Virus/Worm

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